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PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) and Anthropic have announced a significant expansion of their alliance partnership.
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PwC employees will use Claude to help clients redesign their operating models around artificial intelligence.
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According to a recent report, Anthropic has surpassed OpenAI in commercial artificial intelligence adoption.
Anthropic is on a mission to make Claude the default AI tool for corporate America, with Big Four accounting firm PwC now one of its largest businesses.
On Thursday, PwC and Anthropic announced a significant expansion of their alliance, a move that will help them embed artificial intelligence into the underlying infrastructure of large companies.
The expanded partnership will focus on three areas: helping engineering teams build agent AI tools for clients, deploying AI throughout the transaction process, and leveraging AI to reshape clients’ underlying operating models.
PwC will train and certify 30,000 U.S. employees in Claude Code and expand the product to 364,000 employees globally. The two companies will also establish a joint center of excellence.
Paul Griggs, senior partner and CEO of PwC U.S., said in a press release that the collaboration brings together Anthropic’s AI capabilities and PwC’s industry experience, a combination that can help organizations “move from exploration to enterprise-wide impact with greater confidence.”
Claude is already used in ChatPwC, the company’s in-house AI assistant, and has been used for customer interactions in finance, supply chain and transactions.
Dario Amodei, co-founder and CEO of Anthropic, praised PwC’s results for clients using artificial intelligence in a press release, saying: “Insurance underwriting that used to take 10 weeks now takes 10 days. Security work that once took hours now takes minutes.”
The partnership is the latest in a series of similar announcements between Anthropic and service providers that shape how companies spend money, buy technology and redesign their work.
Anthropic announced in early May that it had partnered with Blackstone, Hellman & Friedman and Goldman Sachs Asset Management to form a $1.5 billion artificial intelligence services joint venture aimed at helping enterprises deploy Anthropic’s technology.
This strategy gives Anthropic access not only to the biggest names in Wall Street and the professional services industry, but also to hundreds of portfolio companies and enterprise clients who are under pressure to prove that AI can improve productivity and profits.
OpenAI has alliance partnerships with major consulting firms including BCG, Accenture, Capgemini and PwC. Meanwhile, Google recently announced it will launch a $750 million fund to help consulting firms such as McKinsey, Accenture and Deloitte roll out agent AI to their clients.
